Installing Test Executive 5.0 in LabVIEW 6.0.2

[Martin P]

I'm trying to install Test Executive 5.0 in LabVIEW 6.0.2. However, I run into problems. When i Try to mass compile the test executive folder I get a lot of errors (see attached file), and I don't get the executive in the tools menu.

Could someone tell me what needs to be done?

Thanks,
/Martin

[JRA]

I don't think that Test Executive is necessarily supposed to work with LabVIEW 6.0.2. Test Executive is actually a pretty old NI product that has been replaced by TestStand. Test Executive has a Support Site that you can use. However, if you're going to be using this much, I would suggest upgrading to TestStand.

[Al_S]

I use Test Executive 5.1 with LabView 6.1 (after doing a mass compile) and have no problems.
It looks to me like Test Executive isn't installed correctly so some VIs are missing or in not the expected place. Try reinstalling Test Executive. Don't move any of its VIs after you install it.
You get a ### Bad VI message for a VI if any of its subVI's are missing. There's probably a lot of other reasons for Bad VI, but a bad install seems like the most likely reason. A install may be bad if it's incomplete or simply if you install it to a new location and the VIs that use it are still referencing the old location.
Test Stand is a much more powerful product (and I use it on other applications), but for an existing application with a limited budget, we upgraded LabView,
the PC and Windows, but we didn't replace Test Executive with Test Stand. Going to Test Stand, you not only have the cost of the Test Stand software, you also have the development cost of rewriting some code for Test Stand. Depending on your application and how much you customized Test Executive, the development cost may be significant.